Type
Resource
Description
Captioning
This organization specializes in providing accessible media to hearing and visually impaired people.
Video
These sites include libraries of multimedia available for use in the classroom.
Audio
These sites offer educational podcasts, which can be listened to online or downloaded to personal MP3 players.
Interactives
These sites offer interactive educational games covering various content areas.
Presentation Tools
These online tools allow students to display knowledge in alternative ways to text.
Writing Support
These support tools help students refine their ideas and writing with features that allow for annotation, playback, and more.
Vocabulary Support
These tools provide “ just-in-time” vocabulary support by allowing users to look up words as they encounter them in an online setting.
Math and Science Support
Applets and manipulatives provide a hands-on alternative to text-based math and science concepts, and allow students to interact more directly with important concepts.
Research Support
Research support tools include tools that organize citations and sources, as well as guide students through picking out the useful information from websites.
Graphic Organizers
Online graphic organizers offer learners a way to organize, reorganize, and present information visually.


Information on Digital Text

Resource
Description
Google Books
Digital copies of both fiction and non-fiction titles. Books in copyright will have limited previews; full-text is available on out-of-copyright and public domain titles.
Note: Because some books are in an "image" format rather than "text" format, they may not be compatible with Text-To-Speech (TTS) programs.
Forgotten Books
Full text versions of out-of-copyright titles (works with Google Books).
Project Gutenberg
A collection of free electronic books, many with accompanying audio.
LibriVox
A collection of free audio books, featuring human narration, from the public domain.
Free Classic Audio Books
Audio versions of many classic novels with both human narration and advanced TTS.
Perseus Digital Library
A collection of digital materials relating to the history, literature, and culture of the Greco-Roman world.
Bookshare
A collection of accessible books and periodicals for readers with print disabilities.
Note: This resource is free to qualified students.
UDLEditions by CAST
A collection of digital texts with embedded supports including "Stop and Think" prompts, TTS, dictionary and reference supports, and annotation tools.
UDL Bookbuilder by CAST
This tools allows you to create, share, publish, and read digital books that engage and support diverse learners according to their individual needs, interests, and skills. Click on the “Public Library Books” link to see books that have already been developed and shared by others.
StorylineOnline
A collection of titles read by members of the Screen Actors Guild. Each title includes an activity guide.
Thinking Reader (commercial)
Commercial software program for grades 5-8 with numerous embedded supports and several fiction titles.
WiggleWorks (commercial)
A commercial reading and writing support program for grades K-3.